our crazy kids!

So out of the blue the other night, Abby starts doing this crazy stuff.  I've never seen her do it; we didn't prompt her or anything.  She's just spontaneous and happy and full of life!  And of course, monkey see monkey do, Ryan had to try it too :) 

[and believe it or not, Abby gets a little camera shy, she was even more into it before I started filming!]

Pizza Dinner

Last night we took the kids to pizza for dinner and to tell Ryan about the Baby in mommy's belly!  It was so much fun!  We went ahead and told him it's a girl [on the off chance it is a boy, I'd rather him be surprised  & excited, then disappointed it's a girl].  He asked if it could be a boy, but we said it wasn't up to us and that it looks like God's going to give him another little sister.  He took it in stride and moved right on.  He then started talking about all the things he's going to teach the baby to do, like walking and rolling over [hopefully not in that order :)]. 

We also gave them Big Brother/Big Sister gifts; I was in a great mood at Hobby Lobby and couldn't resist buying them something!  We gave Ryan some UGA dogtags.  I wasn't sure if he'd love or hate them, but he seems to love them, relief!  And I finally gave in and bought Abby the UGA cheerleader doll.  The last two times we've been to Hobby Lobby she's carried "baby" around the whole time.  I just couldn't say no again! 

We are so blessed with our two kids and with a third on the way!  I'm so excited that it's 'real' now and we can relax and celebrate a little! 

Baby Chase is on the way!!

Tennessee

We spent Saturday up in Chattanooga.  We have a season's pass to the TN Aquarium that's about to expire so we have to get in our money's worth!  The kids had a great time.  I loved watching Abby wave to the animals and yell "hi!" to the tanks.  And Ryan's getting so verbal and smart, that everything's fun and exciting.  We talked about spider crabs in particular for several days afterwards [I think he was s-c-a-r-e-d of them.  He wanted to know where they live, would they be at the beach or in the pool, would they bite his feet, that sort of thing]. 
After the aquarium we explored the Chattanooga Choo-Choo complex.  I thought it had a lot of potential, but it's old and not well marketed or anything.  The kids enjoyed it though and we took a trolley ride.  We had the trolley all to ourselves, so the conductor gave them special treatment including pulling the string to ring the bell. 

chasing away sugarbugs

Ryan had a dentist appointment today and he did really great [well most of the time ... positive reinforcement though!].  He has ten teeth on top and ten on bottom; twenty total!

And ... while we were there Dr. Miles took a peek at Abby's teeth too.  She's too little for the real cleaning, but he brushed them and flossed them.  She looked so little in the big chair, sitting on a sleep positioner sort of thing.  She really did do great; no fussing at all!  She has eight teeth on top and eight on bottom; sixteen total.  [I had no idea, so I was excited to know :)].   The dentist could see the two- year molars starting to erupt; they should be here within the next six months and then she'll have all her baby teeth too.

2012 Fun

So we've been in hibernation mode around here :)  Is it spring yet??  Fortunately this winter has started out much milder than last year, but the constant rain will start to mess with your mind after awhile!

The last two weeks have been lazy, relaxing ones broken up by some family & friends time.  David and Kelley, a couple of our best buds from high school, moved back to the east coast and we enjoyed catching up with them a couple of times over break.  And of course lots of family around for Christmas and New Year's; we enjoyed getting to visit with both Aunt Mackenzie and Uncle Jason too.  We had one of our favorite playdates - Catch Air and Pizza Hut with Asher and Graydon [and an ever growing number of sibs :)].  We also partied with Olivia from our new small group at her second birthday party.  It's cool watching Abby make her own friends; more often than not she ends up playing with Ryan's friend's siblings, which is great, but it's fun to see her with girls her age!  She was super cute feeding Olivia goldfish.  And somewhere in there we enjoyed a nice dinner with James and Rachel and Jake and baby Lily.  We also had a family breakfast at McDonald's - family, pancakes, and the playplace, yay!

whew, maybe we haven't been as laidback as I thought; it sure sounds like a lot when you write it all down in one place!  Hope everyone's new year is off to a happy and healthy start!